I'm not a football expert by any means. Not even an expert armchair fan...just an amateur one. But I do know finance. Been working in the capital markets for a decade. Your repeated doom and gloom on the DIA blowing up financially cuz of this is getting a bit too much. Carnival cruise lines - one of the most severely affected industries from COVID, and one of the most financially/operationally leveraged industries in the whole world (still gotta pay for those boats if people aren't on them) issued $3B of debt (just the secured debt, I won't even count the convertibles they also issued) at the end of March. Right in the middle of one the most dramatic decline in the markets we've ever seen. This is a business with ~$4.8B in annual normalized revenue that was down 90-100% at the peak of the pandemic. That's ~63% of sales. As I've discussed in the other thread, DIA will probably need something like a $75M hole to fill assuming ZERO revenue for the entire year. That's, worst case, 58% of revenue. if Carnival can issue that debt, unless there's some random rule i don't know about (which should be paused given the circumstances), there's virtually ZERO reason why a business (as we all call P5 sports on these boards) with (unlike cruise lines) contractually obligated revenue, and (like cruise lines) plenty of hard assets/brand equity can't find emergency bridge funding. They're just not managing it properly if they can't. They need to hire a banker (I'm not a banker, btw).
And don't get me started on Barry Alvarez's comments on cutting sports if they cancel when, from I've seen, they have a $190M SURPLUS in their DIA. That sounds borderline criminal.
To be clear, I actually think the risk/reward on having a season isn't bad and I would vote to play. But, nonetheless, I understand why the decision is being made, and it shouldn't be the end of the world like you make it out to be.